Still not seeing a practical reason to disconnect or avoid connecting your spotify to your facebook. That you would even think that a connection is permanent is just another example of paranoia, stemming from a lack of understanding of technology. Accounts can be connected or disconnected to other accounts with a few lines of code. So they likely wouldn’t even have to ask.įurthermore, nothing is forever on the internet. If it’s a recall issue, Spotify could easily allow you to log in with the e-mail address associated with your facebook account, I’d be very surprised if you aren’t granting Spotify access to that information when you connect your account. Adding that kind of parameter to an account isn’t rocket science.īut what do you need a user name for, anyhow? Logging in? Spotify is going to display your first/last names anyhow, not your user id, whether it’s numerical or chosen, except maybe urls to your profile or published playlists. Have you never logged into gmail & been asked “would you like to add a mobile phone number to this account?” Facebook does the same thing to collect new information. It was years before they implemented the option of a custom user name, & it was a first-come-first-serve situation where all users were presented the option to choose beginning on a specific day. By the time you’re reading this, you already forgot the number I typed above if you don’t check it.ĭoing email signup, THEN connecting to Facebook is smart future preservation that makes no sense not to do.įacebook used to assign all users a random number. Their customer support would be flooded with “I forgot my number!!” requests. If Spotify did allow a Facebook-bound user to disconnect, their username would be something like 1247457341. Creating a new Spotify account lets you create your own custom username that you can also never change, but you are given the ability to name your account whatever you like, something you’re likely not to forget.

An account created through Facebook is assigned a random numerical username which you can never change. “in this unlikely event, Spotify will certainly allow users to convert those accounts…” They can’t. Permanently means: not only in five years, FOREVER. You do not know what the world is like in five years, but a Spotify account created through Facebook is permanently connected even then. Signing up for Spotify through Facebook takes you away that right.

Reserving the ability to delete the Facebook account is exactly what I am after.

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